Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination

by Alexandra Bacalu

Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century poetics of Lord Shaftesbury and Mark Akenside. This book traces the two authors' debt to Roman Stoic spiritual exercises and early modern conceptions of the care of the self, which informs their view of the poetic imagination as a bundle of techniques designed to manage impressions, cultivate right...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004202838
• ISBN13: 9789004202832
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 220 Pages